From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:50:21 +0300 Message-ID: <8336ulv2le.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <877ejxsm18.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <87r2i5308w.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536328115 17072 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2018 13:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 15:48:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH7d-0004Ib-3i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH9j-0008GJ-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH9Y-0008E5-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH9U-00010b-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH9U-00010S-6R; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3991 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH9T-0006B9-J0; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:50:24 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2i5308w.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:28:31 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229399 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:28:31 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I prefer to think of it as a very convenient feature. For example, as > > I typed this email, I first wrote "as I composed" instead of "as I > > typed", pressed Control+Shift+Left Arrow, and pressed "typed". > > Similarly, I had first written "I call it" instead of "I prefer to > > think of it", and the way I changed one into the other was to select > > "call it" and type "prefer to think of it as". > > Neither of those require 'replace selected' behaviour, since you could > easily use M-DEL instead. In Emacs, yes. Let's not assume everybody here uses only Emacs for each and every editing job. So I'm with Clément on this one.